#jude acers

B2L2 is where I first wrote about Jude Acers. And I’ve written speculatively here about the structure of the documentary we started making about him in 2013 and, despite all of the difficulties in trying to see this project through, not least of which would be my limited expertise as a filmmaker, I’ve never gotten sick of it doing it. We’ve gotten better along the way, in all ways, and as long as…

Chess Pieces as Structure

I’ve had many ideas about how to structure the documentary and this one sections the story thematically in six parts, one for each chess piece. I kind of intended the thematic possibilities to correspond with the way the chess pieces move. Pawn Family history. Empowered by difficult upbringing.  Adrian L. McAuley His mother dying when Jude is very young; Jude living in an orphanage until his…